Chapter 421: A river of blood and a mountain of corpses and bones

Xiang Fei knew that he could only suppress the Liaoning army, but not other people's army.

He said under the banner of Wang Mang: "Lord Wang is entrusted by His Majesty to command the three armies, and the heads of the major families and the princes and nobles are all recognized.

The king had decreed earlier that innocent civilians should not be slaughtered or that prisoners should not be abused. This is a military order formulated by Lord Wang, not a military order formulated by my Xiang Fei, are you sure you want to confront Lord Wang?

Isn't the reason why you are now able to enter the city and defeat the Hun army because of the Wang's work? The Hun army was brutal, and we would have killed them, but those ordinary people were innocent. They are just like us ordinary Han people, they have no choice at all. Are we going to be their uncivilized savages?

Lord Wang once said that the most fundamental reason why the Xiongnu and other countries were called barbarians was that they were not civilized and cruel. How can we learn from them? Ladies and gentlemen, please give Lord Wang a face, and don't slaughter the ordinary people of the Huns. As for the Hun soldiers who fled and did not surrender, you can kill them however you want. ”

"Lord Wang..."Many coalition generals frowned and wrinkled, it was difficult to reply, and they did not dare to say anything that disrespected Wang Mang's orders in front of everyone.

Xiang Fei continued: "Everyone, it is actually beneficial for us to capture them. Think, if the war is going on against us, won't we be able to use these people as bargaining chips? We can even exchange prisoners with enemy troops.

Many of our soldiers were captured by the Huns, and many civilians were captured, and they were all waiting for us to rescue them.

Lord Wang said earlier that if you can exchange prisoners, you must exchange them with the other party, and try to save the lives of every soldier who can survive. Don't you want to see your soldiers go back safe and sound? Do you want the captured soldiers to be slaughtered by the Huns in retaliation? They are all people with wives and children, how can you bear to do this?

Also, Lord Wang is attacking Yumen Pass on the front line, if those Hun defenders hear the news of our massacre, how will they not do their best to stop and retaliate against Lord Wang? If we treat the enemy with kindness, I think the enemy army will also be influenced, thus relieving the pressure on Lord Wang.

As long as Lord Wang's side goes well, we will be able to defeat the main force of the Huns in one fell swoop. At the moment, we have only won a small victory, how can we ignore the overall situation because of the big loss? ”

"This...."

After Xiang Fei's words, those generals were hesitating and making a difficult choice.

However, those soldiers stopped their efforts, and they did not want to disobey Wang Mang's military orders.

Wang Xian'an had the heart to help Wang Mang, and he ordered in time to let his Wang family's army carry out the military order, and it was not allowed to slaughter the soldiers who surrendered to the Huns, nor to kill the ordinary people of the Huns.

When Yuezhi saw this change, she was grateful and thanked her again and again.

Huo Changhai, Wei Xianming and others thought about it for a while, and had no choice but to nod their heads, saying that they would obey Wang Mang's military orders, not kill ordinary Hun people, and not kill prisoners. As for the Hun soldiers who fled and resisted desperately, they were no longer relentless.

"Whoever surrenders will not be killed!" Xiang Fei shouted at the Hun soldiers and ordinary Huns who had no intention of fighting: "If you don't want to die, surrender quickly." If you resist, no one will be able to save you. ”

The Xiongnu people were angry because they had been slaughtered and wanted to resist with all their might.

But now, when they heard Xiang Fei's words, they also hesitated.

It didn't take long for them to put down their weapons and surrender on their knees.

Xiang Fei ordered people to tie up all these people and leave them for later disposal.

Suddenly, because of Xiang Fei's military order, more other Xiongnu soldiers also surrendered, thus avoiding the situation that they desperately resisted and more Han troops were killed.

Xiang Fei's attack here was extremely fierce, and Wang Mang was also very busy at Yumen Pass.

Since the order of the big order, the army of the major passes was mobilized and gathered behind the Lanzhou Pass.

The generals under him urgently lit beacons and ordered the armies from all walks of life.

In a moment, flames rose in the dark night, city after city, connected like a fiery dragon.

When the Xiongnu commanders stationed at the major passes saw the beacon signal, they dispatched troops and horses to rush to the aid of Lanzhou Pass.

When Wang Mang saw the other party's beacon fire lit, he knew that the Kyushu coalition army had begun to attack the Xiongnu army with all its troops.

So he also ordered his 50,000 soldiers to take advantage of the fact that the opponent's city soldiers would be dispatched, resulting in a weak defense, and attack the defense line with all their might.

His 50,000-strong army suddenly appeared, but it startled the Huns, and they didn't know what was going on.

Because Wang Mang's army is like a heavenly soldier and a general, they are coming unknowingly, they have no psychological preparation at all, and they have no coping strategy.

Bang!

A loud noise came, and the 50,000 elites of Wang Mang's subordinates launched a charge, and began to attack the Gansu defense line, pointing at the Yumen Pass.

In the other direction, when Wang Xianzhi saw the Xiongnu beacon fire lit, he also knew that the opportunity had come. So he also ordered the 50,000 soldiers of the Tianhan battalion to attack the Gansu and Qinghai defense lines controlled by the Huns, and stormed the pass at any cost, rushing to Yumen Pass.

This night is destined to be a night of blood.

This night is destined to be a night of piles of bones.

Countless soldiers of the Han army and the Xiongnu fought a general battle and died on the battlefield. Countless lives had to fall in pools of blood because of the cruelty of war.

The terrible roar, the tragic roar, the unwilling to die, all kinds of heart-wrenching voices resounded throughout the world.

In the face of the general trend, all glory and wealth have become a cloud of the past.

One moment ago, they were still drinking and talking, one moment before they were still in the powder tent and tenderness, one moment before they were still pointing out the country, and one moment before they were still compiling beautiful plans, but the next moment, these people were all turned into ashes, and they became a pile of corpses that no one cared about, lying on the ground cold.

War has always been cruel.

War is always a source of despair.

At the beginning of the Great War, no one could stop this cruelty and tragedy. can only deal with it with a cold heart and a numb countenance, and fight to fight.

In war, the only way to survive is to kill more enemies.

If you don't kill me, I'll kill you, I don't have a choice.

The Han army was more than 500,000 people, and the Xiongnu side also had more than 300,000 or 400,000 people Combined with the scattered and scattered other armed forces, the two sides have collectively invested nearly a million soldiers in this war.

Now that so many soldiers are fighting together, this is so tragic and unimaginable.

Almost everyone has blood on their hands, and their lives are ending.

They didn't want to kill, but in order to survive, in order to win the battle, they had to kill.

(End of chapter)